G.-Depreciation in Canadian Stocks.

The depreciation in value of the prominent securities in the stock market is becoming rapidly more and more remarkable, as the following comparison between the prices of the leading bank and other stocks in November of last year and February of this year, with those ruling at present, will show.

It will thus be seen that all stocks have fallen to a very large extent, some of them more than 25 per cent. The following table shows approximately the depreciation in the market value of the capital stocks of the most important institutions since November a year ago:

Total depreciation in bank and other stocks during the year.......

4,372, 650

MEXICO.

ACAPULCO.

Sta'ement showing the imports at Acapulco for the year ending September 30, 1883.

Statement showing the exports from Acapulco for the year ending September 30, 1883.

TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES.

Statement showing the imports and exports between Acapulco and the United States for the year ending September 30, 1883.

Statement showing the navigation at the port of Acapulco for the year ending September

30, 1883.

Mexican

Statement showing the navigation at the port of Acapulco, &c.—Continued.

German...

American..

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Report by Consul Willard on the commerce and trade of Guaymas for the

year 1883.

Since my last annual report on this consular district, I beg leave to state that, although up to the month of July of this year all branches of commerce and agriculture promised good results, several causes have combined by which the district in general has been disadvantageously affected, prominent among which was the advent of the so-called yellow fever, and the want of the usual rains of July, August, and September. The Sonora Railroad having been completed the latter part of the past year and fully opened to traffic in January last, was beginning to demonstrate its advantages. All classes of business was improving when the dreaded fever made its appearance, and all industries of the State during the months of August, September, and October were partially paralyzed.

Since the 1st of this month, however (as the fever has disappeared), there has been a general improvement. Business of all kinds is reviving, and strong hopes are entertained that the coming year will more than counterbalance the losses of the past year. The accompanying

tables A, B, and C, of imports, exports, and tonnage, are from the Mexican custom-house records of Guaymas.

As shown by the above table the imports from the United States by sea have decreased $183,224.96 from the previous year, and the imports from Europe have increased $10,196.24, but as a greater portion of the northern part of this district now import direct from the United States across the border, and no account of this is furnished here, at least $500,000 can be safely added to American imports to Sonora. Therefore, the total imports to this consular district can be estimated as follows:

It must be understood, however, that fully one-third of the American imports mentioned consists of machinery and lumber, and are free of duty, while those from Europe are hardware and merchandise which pay full duties.

The southern part of this consular district, of which Alamos is the commercial center (240 miles distant), is supplied with imported goods from the port of Mazatlan (Sinaloa), and it is an impossibility to get an approximate estimate of values at this time, for the reason that after foreign goods are landed at Mazatlan and the duties paid they become nationalized, and afterwards are taken from there with other goods of the country to said place.

It is estimated that Alamos receives yearly $750,000 of imported European and American manufactured goods. Certain portions of Southern Chihuahua are supplied with goods of this character from Alamos. Imports by rail from the United States in transit to the coast south will most likely increase the coming year, as steamer communication with the lower coast is now well established, and the demand for quick transit of goods will make this a desirable point for reshipment.

EXPORTS.

The exports (see Table B) of all kinds by sea for the past year have been $341,663.58, a decrease of $203,650.97 from last year from this